Rule - 03

Augustinian Priory
Do-Shin-Ri, Korea

The plan of the Rule.

I. Basis and essential conditions of monastic life:

common ownership.

II. Prayer

III. Food

IV. Guarding of the senses and chastity

Fraternal correction.

V. Compendium: use of possessions:

clothes, books, baths, sickness.

VI. Fraternal relationships, forgiveness.

VII. Obedience and the superior.

VIII. Conclusion.

Links

About the Rule- One page from the Australian Augustinian web site.

http://www.augustinians.org.au/tradition/rule.html

The Rule. A lengthy description from the first edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02079b.htm

What is the Rule of Augustine? A basic description.
http://www.scourmont.be/studium/bresard/11-augustine.html#AugustinII

Further Reading

For the Augustinian Rule and its complex textual and historiographical traditions, see L. Verheijen O.S.A., La Regle de saint Augustin, I, Tradition manuscrite; II, Recherches historiques (Paris, 1967); see also idem, Nouvelle Approche de la Regle de saint Augustin (Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 1980). Cf. George Lawless, O.S.A., Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule (Oxford, 1987), and especially pages 127-135. Forty years after the publication of Verheijen's exhaustive study, erroneous comments concerning the Rule of Augustine are still being made, and made as assertions without taking into account the state of the scholarship on the Rule, or offering evidence to the contrary.
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